Posted March 06, 2020
I am interested in single board computers, and am currently wondering what you would recommend based on these criteria. (Before anyone says, none of the Raspberry Pi models fit.)
Requirements:
* Low power. In particular, it must be possible to power it from a type-A USB 2.0 port on a computer, which limits the power requirement to 500mA, if I understand it correctly. (The RPi 4 fails this requrement.)
* Must have device-side USB support, so that it can act as a serial or ethernet device, for example.
* CPU must support hardware virtualization. (This is where the RPi Zero fails.)
* RAM should be at least 512 megabytes, and the device must support at least this amount of storage.
* I would prefer a smaller device, like the RPi Zero.
* This device needs to actually be available, and it must be possible to purchase a quantity of 1.
Non-requirements:
* Video out is not required, nor do I need a GPU.
* The CPU does not need to be fast; a slower CPU that uses less power might actually be preferable here.
* I don't actually need GPIO.
* The architecture doesn't matter too much, as long as it supports Linux and the KVM hypervisor.
So, any ideas?
Requirements:
* Low power. In particular, it must be possible to power it from a type-A USB 2.0 port on a computer, which limits the power requirement to 500mA, if I understand it correctly. (The RPi 4 fails this requrement.)
* Must have device-side USB support, so that it can act as a serial or ethernet device, for example.
* CPU must support hardware virtualization. (This is where the RPi Zero fails.)
* RAM should be at least 512 megabytes, and the device must support at least this amount of storage.
* I would prefer a smaller device, like the RPi Zero.
* This device needs to actually be available, and it must be possible to purchase a quantity of 1.
Non-requirements:
* Video out is not required, nor do I need a GPU.
* The CPU does not need to be fast; a slower CPU that uses less power might actually be preferable here.
* I don't actually need GPIO.
* The architecture doesn't matter too much, as long as it supports Linux and the KVM hypervisor.
So, any ideas?